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Dying to Be Beautiful: Deadly Cosmetics
by Eleanor Herman
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families…
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Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
by Daniel Kalder Since the days of the Roman Empire dictators have written books. But in…
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The Many Affairs of Crown Prince Rudolf
by Greg King and Penny Wilson On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant…
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Echoes of Mayerling: The Unlikely Career of Countess Marie Larisch
by Greg King and Penny Wilson By 1918, the Austro-Hungarian and the German Empires had collapsed…
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The Rise and Fall of the Viking Crusades
by John Haywood The Wendish Crusade In 1144, the crusaders lost the key city of Edessa…
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The Lewis Chessmen: Brexit and a New North Sea Style
by Nancy Marie Brown Look at a map and remember the key position this area enjoyed…
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The Incredible Case of Monsignor Scarano
by Gianluigi Nuzzi In March 2013, before the election of the new Pontiff, the prosecutors’ offices…
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7 Books to Celebrate Women’s History Month
This Women’s History Month, we bring you seven titles highlighting the amazing feats of women, whether…
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Good With a Gun
by Tom Clavin
In the following excerpt from Follow Me to Hell, Tom Clavin introduces John…
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When Fascists Roamed America’s Cities
by Thomas Mullen
When we think about the World War II years, we tend to visualize…
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The Mayor and the Nazis
by Terry Golway
As hard as it is to imagine, there was a time in the…
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The First Shots of the Revolution
by Jack Kelly
In the following excerpt from God Save Benedict Arnold , the first shots of…
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The Cave Man
by Tom Clavin
Did you know that there was a series of events known as the…
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Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium is the first English language edition of a lost memoir by Holocaust survivor József…
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Edith Wharton’s Guide to New York
by Mariah Fredericks
Mariah Fredericks's new novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton through…
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